Poldrack’s work in the Imaging Research Center — at the Poldrack Lab — focuses on the study of learning and memory, decision making and executive control. While much of the research is centered on basic cognitive and neural mechanisms, Poldrack and his team also delve into translational research into the mechanisms of neuropsychiatric disorders.

In his own foray into self-experimentation, Poldrack is closing in on the completion of his massive data-gathering phase, having spent every Tuesday for the last year undergoing a battery of surveys, medical tests — including bloodwork and an MRI — at the IRC with the goal of better understanding the human brain by gaining a comprehensive understanding of his own.

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